ExoMol line lists for formaldehyde H_2_CO

An empirical potential energy and ab initio dipole moment surfaces are used as the input to nuclear motion program TROVE. The resulting line list, referred to as AYTY, contains 10.3 million rotational-vibrational states and around 10 billion transition frequencies.

Each transition includes associated Einstein- A coefficients and absolute transition intensities, for wavenumbers below 10000cm^-1^ and rotational excitations up to J=70. Room-temperature spectra are compared with laboratory measurements and data currently available in the HITRAN database. These spectra show excellent agreement with experimental spectra and highlight the gaps and limitations of the HITRAN data.